News from the Oregon Hazards Lab

The Bureau of Land Management Lakeview District and its partners at the Oregon Hazards Lab at the University of Oregon have installed another new wildfire detection camera in Southeastern Oregon. The Green Mountain camera is part of a 1,000-plus-camera network hosted on the ALERTWest platform.

The ShakeAlert Earthquake Early Warning System can detect earthquakes so quickly that alerts can be delivered to schools before they feel shaking. ShakeAlert can be integrated into school paging systems to deliver life-saving alerts to students and teachers. Attend this free virtual workshop to learn how ShakeAlert can be used in your school.

March 11 marks three years since the ShakeAlert® Earthquake Early Warning System went live in Oregon. ShakeAlert can save lives and reduce injuries by giving people seconds to take protective action, such as Drop, Cover and Hold On, or to move away from hazardous areas if they feel shaking or get an alert.

If a major earthquake were to strike today, do you have a plan? If you have your phone set up to receive ShakeAlert warnings, you might just have an few extra moments to put that plan into action before the ground starts to move. The ShakeAlert system went live in Oregon on March 11, 2021, a decade after a devastating quake rocked Japan.

In latest edition of our quarterly newsletter, we share the new platform for our wildfire cameras, the expansion of OHAZ.net, and the integration of geodetic data into the ShakeAlert Earthquake Early Warning System. Email ohaz@uoregon.edu to subscribe.

The Oregon Hazards Lab is collaborating with the Oregon Networking Research Group to improve the resilience of its natural disaster monitoring and alerting systems. Known as HazardMon, this new framework will help us identify and respond to threats to our network, from cyberattacks to earthquakes that knock out internet.